Marathon bowling, dude

June 6, 2005 5:38 AM

"He was delirious; he was talking to the ball return" Others have tried, but failed. This guy did it for charity. Sounds grueling - very un-Dude.
posted by tizzie (12 comments total)

Jeez, 10-pin?

My fingers would fall off.
posted by dreamsign at 6:05 AM on June 6, 2005

Wilson bowled for 64 hours and 22 minutes at a Warren County bowling alley over the weekend...

Guy obviously isn't shomer shabbas.
posted by planetkyoto at 6:30 AM on June 6, 2005

oh man does that suck for the guy in that second link.
posted by Mach5 at 6:30 AM on June 6, 2005

Illustrating a valuable life lesson for his daughters. Jesus. I think I'd rather have the Gestapo cops than that crap.
posted by biffa at 7:17 AM on June 6, 2005

Wilson fantasized that the machine was going to send food instead of a bowling ball. "I must have been hungry," he said.

posted by warbaby at 7:29 AM on June 6, 2005

"In exchange for three sleepless days and nights, a badly blistered left thumb and screamingly sore feet"

but... I get those after 2 hours. The man must have a fake hand, or something.
posted by NinjaPirate at 7:47 AM on June 6, 2005

Cool story; at least he didn't have a "MARK IT ZERO" freakout :-)
posted by WolfDaddy at 8:58 AM on June 6, 2005

Thank god he didn't get Munsoned. Though, this does sound like a good starting point for Kingpin II.
posted by beelzbubba at 1:45 PM on June 6, 2005

"He said, 'I want to prove to my girls that once you start something, you don't stop just because it gets hard,' " said Wilson's neighbor, David Hummel.

Um. Didn't he stop once it got too hard? Or was 64 hours and 22 minutes his goal from the start?
posted by mrgrimm at 2:45 PM on June 6, 2005

Back in the 80s I spent 84 hours of my misbegotten youth breaking a Guinness world record, and I can tell you from hard experience that weird hallucinations are really not unusual. In my case they were mostly spatial: left and right reversed themselves (I would turn my head to the left and see the people to my right, and vice versa) and for a while I couldn't remember if I was sitting or standing, which made trying to do either an interesting experience. And paintings were coming off the walls, and stuff.

Respect to the guy. 64+ hours for a physical activity that requires decent mind-body coordination is pretty hardcore.
posted by Hogshead at 6:46 PM on June 6, 2005

Ok Hogshead, I'll bite - which record?
posted by WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot at 8:09 PM on June 6, 2005

"I want to prove to my girls that once you start something, you don't stop just because it gets hard"

Christ... he sounds like a fun dad
posted by derbs at 1:54 AM on June 7, 2005